The Washington Post runs an extensive comments operation on almost all its news stories. One of the best things about their site is that it is only lightly monitored although they have a robo-editor that snags all the nasty words. Today their comments on just one story ~ about Republican concern about Mitt not releasing tax records ~ is rapidly rising toward 5,000 comments ~ see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-or-without-tax-return-release-pressure-on-romney-ramps-up-from-both-sides/2012/07/17/gJQAbuuBsW_story.html?hpid=z3 And they aren’t all Conservatives and Leftwingtards either.
Doesn’t surprise me. Team Obama has been building to this for 2 years. They calculated correctly that Romney would emerge the nominee.
The electorate is prepared to stick it to the rich aristocrat. It’s all part of the plan. The entertainment section will be running with it in their sitcoms this fall.
But Romney thinks its worse to release them than to refuse to release.